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Date:      Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:02:57 +1200
From:      Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>
To:        David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu>
Cc:        freebsd@xaa.iae.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF ldconfig
Message-ID:  <19980920170257.B9422@clear.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <98Sep20.000104edt.37911-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu>; from David Holland on Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 12:00:55AM -0400
References:  <19980920133401.B9101@clear.co.nz> <98Sep20.000104edt.37911-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu>

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On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 12:00:55AM -0400, David Holland wrote:
>  > That was my concern. Surely there must come a time when two versions of
>  > a shared library exist (with identical major version numbers), and an
>  > application requires to be dynamically linked to the older of the two
>  > because of some incompatibility with the newer library?
> 
> Standard ELF doesn't allow this, or support minor version numbers.
> 
> Even worse things happen when you have two builds of (say)
> libslang.so.1 that were compiled against different libcs and are thus
> not interchangeable...

So remind me why ELF is a good idea? :)

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Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>      Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008
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